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Netflix 2022 Doc ‘White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch’ Helped Propel Arrest of Retailer’s Former CEO Mike Jeffries

Two years after the release of the Netflix documentary expose “White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch,” the retail company’s former CEO Mike Jeffries was arrested last week on international sex trafficking charges for crimes that occurred while he was running the clothing retailer from 1992 to 2014. The 88-minute film, directed […]

‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Director on How She Turned a Living-Off-the-Grid Doc Into an Exquisitely Heartbreaking Story of a Family

In 2014, filmmaker Silje Evensmo Jacobsen became fascinated with a Norwegian photographer’s blog. The blogger – Maria Vatne – visually captured how she and her British husband, Nik Payne, raised and home-schooled their four bilingual children off the grid on a Scandinavian farm. “I admired her, as the family represents a lifestyle and mindset that […]

‘The Bibi Files’ – the Docu That Benjamin Netanyahu Doesn’t Want You to See – to Launch on Jolt (EXCLUSIVE)

“The Bibi Files,” a documentary about Benjamin Netanyahu that features never-before-seen video of the Israeli Prime Minister being interrogated by police on corruption allegations that led to his indictment in 2019, will be available to stream on Jolt.film beginning Dec. 11.  In September, Netanyahu attempted to block “The Bibi Files” from premiering at the Toronto […]

DOC NYC Announces Oscar Predictor Feature Shortlist That Includes ‘The Bibi Files,’ ‘Will & Harper’ and ‘No Other Land’

Alexis Bloom’s “The Bibi Files,” Raoul Peck’s “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found” and Johan Grimonprez’s “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” are among the 15 documentary films that have received a coveted spot on DOC NYC’s feature shortlist. Launched in 2012, the DOC NYC feature shortlist, which this year includes several streamer-backed docs as well as […]

Texas Abortion Docu ‘Zurawski v Texas’ Wins Inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at HIFF (EXCLUSIVE)

Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault’s abortion documentary “Zurawski v Texas” garnered the inaugural Artemis Rising Foundation Award for Social Impact at the Hamptons International Film Festival. The new award honors one film that transforms our culture and challenges the status quo. Executive produced by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence, “Zurawski v Texas” follows […]

James Carville on His Doc ‘Winning Is Everything, Stupid,’ the Election and Persuading Biden to Drop Out

Thirty-one years after taking center stage in D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus’ “The War Room,” crafty, straight-talking Democratic political strategist James Carville is the star of another documentary, Matt Tyrnauer’s “Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid” The movie, which was acquired by CNN Films shortly before its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, will open […]

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